Quotes about: life
– James Lane Allen
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
– William Allingham
– Chris Van Allsburg
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
– Henri Frederic Amiel
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
– Henri Frederic Amiel
– Henri Frederic Amiel
– Kingsley Amis
– Barbara de Angelis
– Maya Angelou
– Maya Angelou
– Kofi Annan
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– Jean Anouilh
– Jean Anouilh
– Jean Anouilh
– Jean Anouilh
– Minna Antrim
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
– Hannah Arendt
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
– Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
– Aristotle
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– Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
– Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
– Aristotle
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– Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
– Aristotle
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
– Aristotle
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
– Aristotle
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– Aristotle
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– Matthew Arnold
– Matthew Arnold
– Antonin Artaud
– Chester A. Arthur
– Beatrice Arthur
– Arthur Ashe
– Arthur Ashe
– Isaac Asimov
– Sean Astin
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There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
– Sean Astin
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– Nancy Astor
– Brooks Atkinson
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus